Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they do like them despite the fact that they're vitriolic, particularly if they're for the right thing. If you can see that the person is a decent person and is for the right thing, and is not just a nasty person with base motives, but someone who is a decent human but expresses himself.
I guess I always knew going into the movie that casting that part would be difficult. Oliver just felt likeable. I felt it would be hard to dislike this man. I don't know why, but I'm sure other directors have felt the same when casting him. Oliver is goofy yet formidable, smart but likeable. . . I didn't want the character of Alex to be nasty or demonised. I wanted him to be struggling with his actions.
Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech. . . I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.
What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct. ' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.
I hunt feral hogs. I try not to shoot creatures. That doesn't do anything for me. But big, nasty, smelly, bristly things with tusks that destroy everything that they touch. Yeah, I'll shoot them.
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.
Right now, I see a lot of alarming trends inside Russia, especially in Siberia, which I represent in the parliament. People start to ask questions: If we mine all the natural resources - if we have all the oil, all the gas, all the coal, all the gold, all the diamonds - why the hell do we need central Russia? They are just eating at our resources. Without Moscow having a response for this, it would face very nasty questions such as one that was asked during my recent reelection campaign - it actually became a slogan of my campaign - "Stop feeding Moscow. "
I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.
We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.
It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.
I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.
You're not allowed to criticize Obama because of his race. And I thought feminism made us all the same, we're all equal. Everybody's a tough guy now, so why can't we criticize women? Hillary Clinton is a nasty woman.
Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
Anybody I'd spoken to who'd been in Siberia said 'would you please put mosquitos in your film,' that's what everybody knows about, they're big and they're nasty.
It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.
If I see something really nasty on Twitter, I will usually delete it or block the person because I don't want to see that every day Get to know me, and then you can talk about me!
Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty.